Episode 13: Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes

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In 1993, 18-year-old Rose Larner went missing in Albion, Michigan. Her boyfriend, John Ortiz-Kehoe, and her childhood friend, Billy Brown, told police they saw her early on December 7, but they had no idea where she went after that. Two years later, an investigation revealed that Billy Brown and John Kehoe were both local drug users and dealers and Brown feared he might be implicated in Rose's disappearance, so he decided to cooperate with police. He told them that Rose Larner was murdered by John Kehoe two years earlier in Kehoe's grandparents' home. According to Billy Brown, Larner refused to participate in a sexual threesome, so Kehoe strangled her, placed her in the shower, slit her throat and dismembered her body. Police compared a tiny speck of blood found at Kehoe's grandparents' home to a blood sample taken from Rose Larner four years before the murder and it matched. Kehoe was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Billy Brown was convicted for being an accessory, but as part of the deal, in which he gave up Kehoe, Brown served only a year in prison.

In 1993, 18-year-old Rose Larner went missing in Albion, Michigan. Her boyfriend, John Ortiz-Kehoe, and her childhood friend, Billy Brown, told police they saw her early on December 7, but they had no idea where she went after that. Two years later, an investigation revealed that Billy Brown and John Kehoe were both local drug users and dealers and Brown feared he might be implicated in Rose's disappearance, so he decided to cooperate with police. He told them that Rose Larner was murdered by John Kehoe two years earlier in Kehoe's grandparents' home. According to Billy Brown, Larner refused to participate in a sexual threesome, so Kehoe strangled her, placed her in the shower, slit her throat and dismembered her body. Police compared a tiny speck of blood found at Kehoe's grandparents' home to a blood sample taken from Rose Larner four years before the murder and it matched. Kehoe was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Billy Brown was convicted for being an accessory, but as part of the deal, in which he gave up Kehoe, Brown served only a year in prison.